Directors Notes is delighted to present the inaugural edition of the WeAreDn Awards, a celebration of the best films from Dn’s 2023 official submissions. Taking place from 6:30pm on the 25th of April at Whirled Cinema London, the Dn team have selected 22 films over 8 categories – Drama, Comedy, Music, Documentary, Animation, Buckle Up, British & Student – for our industry jury members to vote on. We welcome all nominees, cast, crew, friends and film lovers to join us as we screen the winning films and present the WeAreDn Awards followed by celebratory networking drinks.
Our Jury
Ella Glendining is a BAFTA-nominated writer and director. Is There Anybody Out There? premiered at Sundance 2023, and has won the Silver Horn for the director of a film on social issues at Krakow Film Festival 2023, the prestigious Fipresci International Film Critics Prize, and the Bring the Change award at Biografilm Festival 2023. In 2024 Ella was nominated for...
Our Jury
Ella Glendining is a BAFTA-nominated writer and director. Is There Anybody Out There? premiered at Sundance 2023, and has won the Silver Horn for the director of a film on social issues at Krakow Film Festival 2023, the prestigious Fipresci International Film Critics Prize, and the Bring the Change award at Biografilm Festival 2023. In 2024 Ella was nominated for...
- 3/14/2024
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
Society’s manacled perception of nudity and the over-sexualisation of the naked form has long been a place for debate and contention which filmmaker Ross Casswell set out to explore in Naked Woman. His empowering documentary short spotlights three diverse and liberated female subjects as he documents the trio’s differing attitudes and thoughts about body image and nudity through their chosen professions. Casswell sought to capture his participants’ definitions of themselves as women and professionals as they employ nudity as a means of empowerment and strength in contrast to the all too common negativity surrounding body image. We invited Casswell to speak to us about the directional shift the short took from its initial premise after working with their first participant, how they created the stylised juxtaposition of the naked form against their clothed personas on set and broaching the objectification of the female form.
[A heads up, both the film and following article contain some Nsfw images.]
This is a wonderfully...
[A heads up, both the film and following article contain some Nsfw images.]
This is a wonderfully...
- 6/14/2023
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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